to john berg. now, cooler county school found a person of international relations out the african national congress youth lead to hear his take your very welcome to the program. do you think this deal will bring real tangible relief to the global food crisis and be as important as vital as it's being reported today? thank you so much for having us. i think today and through this deal the russian federation has been vindicated because the same people that are now asking us to be at the forefront the solution for the global food crisis. that is, the lu, me are the same. people that isolated and condemned the russian people into the wilderness, not knowing that to pluck out the russian federation from global civilization or to attempt to do that is like attempting to clock out and get in your board. you . so we say that this is an important milestone, and again, the russian federation has displaced that it is a pattern of a human life by signing this agreement. why? why did that? did you created peopl

i mean, you look at some of the remarks coming out of john berg, for example, nato secretary general, and they're practically giddy. they view this as, as an incredible opportunity at themes. and now it's not just rush obviously, but it's fine as well. you know, this document published by nato sites, a deepening strategic partnership between the people's republic of china and the russian federation. and they're mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules based international order. they say there's run the counter to our values and interests as nato. so obviously, now it seems, you know, it's not just a, a nominally defensive alliance aimed at re militarize in europe, back to cold war levels against russia, but now against china as well. so really, yeah, i think i'd have to agree with your other guys. say it's really impossible to interpret what's happening in europe is anything other than read militarization back to cold war era levels. exactly. you scott, and this and it with the adding sweden and finland here, which, you know, the, the nato is border with russia now is expan

berg associates. very interesting to hear your thoughts the conversation. appreciate it. thanks, john. all right, now on kong is celebrating 25 years under chinese rule. with friday, marking the day, britain relinquished the sovereignty over its vend colony the hand over agreement outlined a governing principle of one country to systems for a period of 50 years. and china as president, she's in pain, has made his 1st trip outside mainland china since the pandemic to celebrate the anniversary. in his arrival speech, he stated that hong kong had been reborn of fire, noted the success of principles that had allowed the city to have its own governmental system and also to govern its own legal, economic and financial affairs. earlier we spoke to russia's consul general to hong kong, so get off who highlighted to the importance of the one country to systems principal . this business over the last 25 years. so i have seen the implementation of this policy. it's unique in content and form, and we can confidently say that yes indeed, it has passed the test of time. it has proven its liability.